High Schooled.

Do you ever get the question O what high school did you go to? I have tons of times...but unlike most people I am not excited to talk about it. High school to say the least was terrible. I went to Coronado High School. I didn't really have any friends that went there my one & only friend at the time went to another high school. People didn't like me..I would go sometimes a whole day without talking to anyone. I never was with the "in-crowd" or any crowd. People teased and harrassed me..even peed on my car. My house often got egged. I played the trumpet which was really sweet but no one else really thought so. I didn't ever have a girlfriend. Never went to or got invited to with everyone to Homecoming. I missed both my junior & senior prom even though i love dancing. I was laughed off the baseball team due to horrible ridicule from so called teammates. I don't miss it at all...I was really lonely and didn;t have alot of hope for things to come..See I don't get excited to talk about what happened rather super excited because out of pain, tears, and what seems like a dark time in my life God shines through. Jesus was what got me through those hard times and has used it to forever change my life and it has given me enough strength to handle anything. That's the beauty of Jesus -2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
It took me losing all that I knew from friends to dreams to find out that when everything of this world is put aside the only thing left is Jesus. It was Jesus that stayed faithful to be my true friend when I needed one the most. See underneath all the pain & what I was trying to fill the big hole in my heart was Jesus. I done all I could to get rid of my burdens but I couldn't ..so I let go because Jesus is so loving he is willing to take the broken pieces of our heart and put them back together.Without Him I can do nothing & I am nothing. Ephesians 2:8-9 says 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast." It was all Jesus..he saved me. All we have to do is cry out for help & he will hear us and come to our rescue. Romans 5:8 -But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. While I was lost in sin & without hope for this life..he gave his life for me. See God refuses to stop loving us. Yes there are times life is hard even downright unbearable but Jesus is bigger than anything this world can throw at you..he created it. Life is like a blacksmith making steel, to make the steel the blacksmith first has to heat the steel until it melts..when this happens the impurities will float to the top..the blacksmith will see the impurities and remove them and then forge beautiful metals. Jesus does the same with use...by turning up the heat it allows our impurities to become visible..this can be hard sometimes but it is how he makes us pure again. So what happened to me after high-school...God overwhelmed me by giving me tons of friends, an amazing college, cycling, and the most amazing years of my life...God is GOOD all the time!